The Ending Of Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire Explained

«Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire» begins with Godzilla and Kong in their separate corners of the world. Godzilla defends the people of Rome against a giant spider, then takes over the Colosseum and has a nap. Kong, meanwhile, is still looking for others like him in the Hollow Earth but comes up empty.

Kong has a cracked tooth and goes to the surface to get people to fix it. While the veterinarian Trapper (Dan Stevens) repairs his mouth, Dr. Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall) is worried about having Kong on the surface too long, lest Godzilla gets wind of it. While Kong is there, Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry) shows up to tell Ilene about the meaning behind the strange drawings her adopted daughter Jia (Kaylee Hottle) is making. Bernie has figured out that these are distress signals from the Hollow Earth. So when Kong goes back there, Ilene, Jia, Trapper, and Bernie tag along.

In the Hollow Earth, Kong goes down to the Subterranean Realm, where he finds cowering apes ruled by the Skar King. But who is the Skar King? He’s an enormously powerful and not especially nice ape. Kong fights him and almost wins. But then, Skar King calls Shimo, a kaiju he controls who breathes ice. Shimo forces Kong to retreat. Meanwhile, Godzilla consumes massive amounts of radiation, even killing the kaiju Tiamat in the Arctic Ocean, as a way of powering up to confront the threat.